First Announcement of

Global Smart Cities Summit (GSCS 2023)

cum

The 3rd International Conference on Urban Informatics (ICUI 2023)

20 - 23 August 2023, Hong Kong

Website: https://isocui.org/icui2023

Dear colleagues and friends,

We are glad to announce that the Global Smart Cities Summit (GSCS 2023) cum The 3rd International Conference on Urban Informatics (ICUI 2023) will be held in Hong Kong on 20 - 23 August 2023. We cordially invite you to submit abstracts or full papers to this conference. We look forward to meeting you in Hong Kong to discuss the future development of smart cities, as well as science advances, new technologies, and applicational innovations in urban informatics.

Event Format: Offline

Main Activities:

• Keynote speeches
• Government forum on smart city development
• Smart city technology innovation exhibition
• Advanced training course on the future development of smart cities
• Networking session with editors-in-chief of international journals
• Oral and poster presentations
• Field trip

Awards:

• Outstanding Achievement in Urban Informatics Award
• Smart Cities Development Contribution Award (Government)
• Smart City Technology Innovation Award (Industry)
• Best Conference Paper Award
• Urban Informatics Journal Paper of the Year Award

Important dates:

• Abstract Submission deadline: 15 May 2023
• Early Bird Registration Opens: 1 June 2023
• Early Bird Registration Closes: 15 July 2023
• Submission of long abstract or full paper (running for the Best Paper Award & for potential publication in the international journal Urban Informatics): 15 August 2023
• Conference rundown available: Early August 2023

Paper submission: 

The filename of the submitted paper is require to be in the form of "Article Title-Topic No.". Please refer to the abstract template for further details (guidelines_authors.doc). 

Organizers:

• International Society for Urban Informatics (ISUI)
• Smart Cities Research Institute (SCRI), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Contact Us: info@isocui.org

Conference Topics:

We welcome topics in all aspects of Urban Informatics and Smart Cities. Themes include but are not limited to:

1. Urban Science and Systems

• Smart Cities and Urban Science
• Energy Networks
• Smart Mobility
• Transport Systems
• Urban Metabolism
• Urban Spatial Structure
• Digital Twins
• Metaverse

2. Urban Sensing for Smart City

• Ambient Sensing
• Urban Navigation and Positioning
• Urban Remote Sensing
• User Generated Content (UGC)
• AIoT

3. Urban Big Data Infrastructure for Smart City

• Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)
• Spatial Search
• Urban Cyberinfrastructure
• Urban Big Data Characteristics

4. Urban Computing for Smart City

• Technologies and Principles
• AI & Data Science
• FinTech and Blockchain
• Uncertainties and Data Governance
• Urban Models
• Edge Computing
• Privacy Preserving Computing

5. Smart Cities Solutions

• Human Health and Well-Being
• Urban Environment and Pollution
• Housing
• Transport
• Urban Ecology
• Urban Economy
• Urban Freight and Logistics
• Urban Governance
• Urban Risks and Resilience

6. Urban spatial data analytics

• Classification of urban land use and land cover
• Spatio-temporal dynamics of urban growth
• Urban geological environment monitoring
• Urban ecological environment monitoring
• Urban human settlement monitoring

7. Emerging Topics in Smart City Development

• Autonomous Driving, High Definition (HD) Map
• Quantum Computing
• Post-pandemic Urban Design
• Urban Ageing

Local Organization Committee Chair:

• Prof Wen-zhong Shi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR

International Advisory Committee:

• Kay Axhausen, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Michael Batty, University College London, UK
• Moshe Ben-Akiva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Mark Birkin, The Alan Turing Institute, UK
• Jun Chen, National Geomatics Center of China, China
• Tao Cheng, University College London, UK
• Kai-Wei Chiang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
• Helen Couclelis, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
• Manfred Ehlers, Osnabrück University, Germany
• Jianya Gong, Wuhan University, China
• Peng Gong, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
• Michael Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
• Renzhong Guo, Shenzhen University, China
• Christian Heipke, University of Hanover, Germany
• Andrew Hudson-Smith, University College London, UK
• Bin Jiang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China
• Ying Jin, University of Cambridge, UK
• Mei-Po Kwan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
• Nina Lam, Louisiana State University, USA
• David Levinson, University of Sydney, Australia
• Qingquan Li, Shenzhen University, China
• Yu Liu, Peking University, China
• Ying Long, Tsinghua University, China
• Paul Longley, University College London, UK
• Liqiu Meng, Technical University of Munich, Germany
• Eric Miller, University of Toronto, Canada
• Alan Murray, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
• Janet Nichol, University of Sussex, UK
• Denise Pumain, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
• Martin Raubal, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Shih-Lung Shaw, University of Tennessee, USA
• Alex Singleton, The University of Liverpool, UK
• Rudi Stouffs, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Paul Torrens, New York University, USA
• Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Chaowei Yang, George Mason University, USA
• Yuanxi Yang, Xi'an Research Institute of Surveying and Mapping, China
• Anthony Yeh, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
• Chenghu Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China